From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 9 18:10:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16760 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 18:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA16600 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 18:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 31166 invoked from network); 10 Jun 1998 01:09:37 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 10 Jun 1998 01:09:37 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm5-164.realtime.net [205.238.146.164]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA03629; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:09:32 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:16:41 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: David Kelly cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Linux leaving FreeBSD behind? In-Reply-To: <199806100022.TAA19160@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, David Kelly wrote: > Brett Glass writes: > > It's certainly getting a lot of press. See > > > > http://209.167.41.132/products/announcement.htm > > Linux certianly is plastered all over the trade journals that arrived > in the mail today. Not a word of FreeBSD. > > Reminds me of the "issue" with Merced (delayed) and Alpha. The press > shouts, "64-bits! 64-bits!" as if Merced (future) and Alpha (today) are > the only horses running. Ignoring SGI/MIPS R10000 and Apple/IBM/Motorola > PowerPC, and no telling what else. > Yeah, according to the FTC, I would say that FreeBSD only runs on 80% of the hardware out there. Time to exert some muscle and stomp out that remaining 20%. ;-) John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message